Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-11
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Beatrice and Hastings.
Broken Bow complains OF an influx Ct
peddling sharks with packs Of snide goods.
Harrington people have subscribed $500 to
a fund for a celebration of the coming Fourth
of July.
w. L. May, of the Nebraska fish commits
sion, was reelected presto emit of the National
Fisheries society.
Prof. Palmer, the mind reader, Is astonish.
ishing the people Of Fremont with his wen
derful performances.
Red Cloud school bonds to the amount OF
5000 recently sold for premium Of $3.50.
This is strong evidence Of gilt-edge credit.
The commissioned of Valley county pub
licly announce that they can safely dispose
Of So, 0CO during the ensuing year, and not
half try.
Under a section OF an old Lincoln ordi.
nance, which the new administration has
resurrected, hotel runners will have to take
out u license.
Charley Sing, an Acknowledged Celestial, was
recently married to a white woman in Omaha
and on Thursday the undiyorced husband
was In the city with blood in his eye, looking
for the happy pair.
Two men who had sold beer In South Sioux
City without a license were taken to Dakota
City on Tuesday and required to give bonds OF
81 600 each for appearance atsthe next term
OF the district court.
A sad feature Of Decoration day exercises
In Albion was the sudden death Of Samuel
Johnson, a boy Of thirteen. The boy was IN
the procession with a number OF school clil-
dren, fell in a faint and expired in a few
minutes.
Hon. Lew May, the lone fisherman ofs FREE
mont, has closed his professional career.
The presidential fish stories from Saranac
lake have impressed him with the utter folly
of competition while Cleveland IL in the
wilderness.
The Cedar Bluffs News, by E. f. Sanders,
Is the latest candidate for favors and fat ads.
Cedar Bluffs is in Saunders county on the
Lincoln branch Of the Elkhorn Valley road.
The News declares It is 'earth's choicest spot
"A rich country and a live town continually
on the move"
Jobn Gage, living a few miles north Of
Rushville, was peculiarly and painfully hurt
last Monday morning. He was working about
his oxen, when one Of the animals threw his
head to one side and struck Mr.. Gage In the
face with his horn, breaking som Of the
bones in the mans face.
The following Nebraska ~postmssters were
appointed: Daniel +. Knockerdorfer, Exeter,
Fillmore county, vice David III. Wentworth,
removed; Mrs. Jennie G.. Fuller, Paris, Sher-
man county, vice Alex Gray, resigned. The
name OF the postofice at Munson, Madison
county, was changed to Hiram.
In the homestead entry case OF Henry
Ream, Neigh, and John Urnansky, of valen-
tine, Acting Secretary Muldrow has reversed
the decision OF the commissioner Of the land
Office, and holds that the settlers made en-
tries and sought to perfect them In good
faith, and that to deprive them would be to
do wrong.
The Hastings Independent whispers into
the ears OF the Lincoln Democrat: "When
Hastings gets the Missouri Pacific, the Kan
sas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern, the
Rock leland Tand one or two other roads,
which are pretty sure of coming here, 1t will
live Lincoln the go.by and be next in i'm
portance to OMAHA
Charles Mantella was arrested at Omaha
on Wednesday on a warrant sworn out by
his wife, charging him with forgery aud being
c fugitive from justice. He had obtained a
check sent his wife by her father and signed
her name to it, appropriating the. funds. 1t
is also claimed that Mantella Is a bigsnist
and has a wife and several children In Kan
sas. His last marriage took place last Sep
TENDER.
Harrington furnishes a specimen Of brutal
ity to a dumb beast that entities Charley Nil.
Ter to a fat berth In the penitentiary stone
pile. Miller found a neighbours hores on his
land. Armed with the wrath Of a maniac and
a fish spear, he pursued and butchered the
animal In a horrible manner. He was arrested
and bound over TO the district court for trial.
Forest L. Putney, of Oakdale, has fallen Ia
love with the law since his escape from the
paternity Of the Anderson child, for the MUIR
der OF which he was tried and acquitted at
Neigh. He has entered suit for damages
amounting to e., $50 against l. Howell, s. G..
Falrchild, b. F. Admire and j. F. Boyd. OF
this amount $3.50 will satisfy the anguish suf-
fered and renew his reputation, the remainder
FOR costs.
There was a Wild time in Wymore a few
days ago and an exhibition Of anatomy that
wreathed the town In bushes. A widowed
disciple Of Bacchus, named John AK, and a
woman OF a similar brand were arrested for
disturbing the peace. Both showed fight with
their mouths and declined a berth in the
cooler. The woman actually stripped for the
fray. This mud departure filed the officers
with dismay and tightened their grip on her
back hair. A street car was chartered, blinds
put up, and the frothing relic of Eve robcd
in an apron string, safely jailed.
j. c. Echols was leaving his house In a
Wednesday at Columbus when the
horse SHED, and, crampipg the wheels, the
began TO turn over. Mr.. Echols jumped
out. and s%pringing for the animals head,
missed 1t. Mrs. Echols, seeing the danger, !
sprang out with her two-year-old boy, landing
On the sidewalk with much force, her son
underneath, escaping with only some
severe contusions on the knee and right hin